concessionary fares• Meanwhile Labour has voted for one miserablesaving - doubling pensioners' concessionary fares.• He said that last year the local authorityspent £1.35m. on concessionary fares and would spend the same this year.• The 1883 CheapTrainsAct made concessionary fares for workersgeneral and compulsory.• It's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m.• Assisting people in rural areas by making concessionary fares on local publictransport widely available.• Local people and regular travellers would also retain their concessionary fares on the crossing.• Pass revival: Langbaurgh Council is set to reintroduce a concessionary fares scheme for pensioners and the disabled from July 1.• The concessionary fares scheme in London will continue.